In the middle of war, surveillance, and fear, some acts of resistance happened quietly behind closed doors. During World War Two, Elisabeth Eidenbenz, a young Swiss humanitarian, worked in southern France with refugee women who were considered disposable by occupying forces. Many were pregnant, malnourished, and living in internment camps where childbirth often meant death. Eidenbenz found an abandoned mansion near the Spanish border and turned it into a secret maternity home. Known later as the

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